Country star Kenny Chesney ‘drunk-dialed’ Lionel Richie at four in the morning, begging to be a part of his duets album “Tuskegee.” The soul man collaborated with some of the biggest country stars on …

Country star Kenny Chesney ‘drunk-dialed’ Lionel Richie at four in the morning, begging to be a part of his duets album “Tuskegee.”

The soul man collaborated with some of the biggest country stars on the project, and when Chesney first heard about it, he urged Richie to consider him as a studio partner.

Richie says, “He calls me at four o’clock in the morning … and I was asleep and he left this voicemail: ‘Lionel, I love ‘My Love.’ I want ‘My Love.’ I love you, Lionel, I love you, I love you so much. … ‘My Love’ is my favorite song. I wanna sing ‘My Love’ with you.’

Country music singer Kenny Chesney appears to have moved on from his romance with girlfriend Amy Colley after he was photographed getting close to another woman during a romantic beach getaway. (Click here for photo)

Chesney confessed his relationship with the Tennessee nurse was in trouble in a recent interview, revealing he and Colley had been “on-again, off-again” for some time.

And now the musician appears to have moved into the arms of ESPN network sportscaster Jenn Brown.

Photos published in Star show the pair embracing on a beach in Cancun, Mexico, where they reportedly escaped for a five-day break earlier this month.

Chesney’s love life first hit the headlines in May, 2005 when he exchanged vows with actress Renee Zellweger. The marriage was short lived — the “Bridget Jones’s Diary” star annulled the union just months later, citing fraud.

The controversy didn’t put Chesney off marriage and now fans are hoping Brown could become his second wife.

Talking of his future marriage hopes in a recent Parade magazine article, Chesney said, “I hope that’s on the cards for me one day.”

Kenny Chesney is wary of dating again because he fears his romantic encounters will be broadcast on Twitter.

The country star, who was briefly married to actress Renee Zellweger, says he’s terrified a date will become a blow-by-blow online account.

He tells Parade magazine, “The world is a different place now. I mean, if I go out with a girl, there is a possibility that she’s going to get up from the dinner table and go to the bathroom and use Twitter to tell everybody what she’s doing.

“The next thing you know, everybody’s got a play-by-play of what you’re having for dinner. That would make anybody uncomfortable.”

Country singer Kenny Chesney is calling on help from across the globe to restore Nashville after floods wrecked the region.

The singer/songwriter has already begged his followers on Twitter.com to contribute cash to the Middle Tennessee Red Cross.

But since returning to his hometown on Wednesday for the first time since the devastating floods, Chesney has been stunned by the extent of the damage and has issued video footage to CNN to highlight the disaster.

He tells the news channel, “We need the world’s help right now and it’s just a really sad thing to see, especially people that you know and people that you love. I do feel the people in this town are a really tight community. It’s just sad to see it happen.

“Just give whatever you can, you know — people have lost everything. We all saw what happened in Haiti and we’ve all saw (sic) what happened across the world. I mean, these people just need bare essentials here in Nashville. It’s crazy to think that but they really do. …

“Yeah, you can give money to the American Red Cross and all that kind of stuff, but these people need toothbrushes, they need toothpaste. It’s not only touched music, it’s touched tourism, the sports industry, I mean so many things that it’s affected.”

Chesney explained, “I look at it as a box, my life as a box… so everything that I put in … learning how to play guitar – put in that box, friends I made – I put in that box. My career grew and everything around me, all the awards and all the songs I wrote and all the success, everything, I put in that box. And that box grew to this wonderful house.

“You protect everything and all the relationships and all the people that helped you build that house… I protected that box and I didn’t know if I could do both.”

But Chesney still has very fond feelings for his ex-wife: “She was a sweet soul, no doubt about it.”

But he hasn’t given up on marriage and admits he’s currently in a relationship and would like “to have a kid.”

Kenny Chesney is adding fashion designer to his resume — the country singer has launched his own clothing line.

The singer has lined up a chain of stores throughout the southern U.S. to carry his Blue Chair Bay label designed for men and women.

Chesney tells People.com, “(It’s feels like) that favorite T-shirt that you’ve washed a lot that is kind of sun bleached … your favorite khakis, and your shirt that you’ve had forever. … Blue Chair Bay is kind of like the place we’d all like to go if we had no obligations or nowhere to be, and that’s kind of what I want this clothing line to represent.”

The singer is certain the range will capture his laid back style for the line, which features worn-in baseball caps and T-shirts starting at $35, because he’s used his non-famous friends for inspiration.

He adds, “I’ve got a shirt that says ‘Bob’s Charter’ and Bob is a buddy of mine that’s been living in the (Caribbean) islands for a long time.”

Photo By Lea Suzuki/ The Chronicle Kenny Chesney has denied playing a part in Jessica Simpson’s recent break-up with Tony Romo, insisting he would never romance a pal’s girlfriend. The country singer …

Photo By Lea Suzuki/ The Chronicle

Kenny Chesney has denied playing a part in Jessica Simpson’s recent break-up with Tony Romo, insisting he would never romance a pal’s girlfriend.

The country singer has blasted a tabloid report alleging he and Simpson flirted in front of the football player at a July 4 party just days before the couple split on the eve of Simpson’s 29th birthday.

He tells People.com, “Tony’s a friend, and I wouldn’t flirt with a buddy’s girlfriend. More importantly, Jessica was just being sweet and there was nothing else to it. It’s not funny. There were no problems. Everybody got along great. After the party, everybody went their own way and nobody thought anything more about it. Period. End of story.”

And the 41-year-old insists he pities Simpson if the press accuses her of cheating every time she chats with a pal.

He adds, “If a girl and her boyfriend can’t go to someone’s house for a Fourth of July party and talk to the other guests without it turning into a big nightmare … then I feel really sorry for Jessica and Tony, who’re both really nice people. I wonder if I wasn’t famous if anyone would even care. But the fact of the matter is I talked to a bunch of guests, hung out, had a good time.”

(AP Photo/Eric Jamison) Country star Kenny Chesney has fired back at reports his ex-wife Renee Zellweger’s divorce plans came as a complete shock to him, insisting the media slant on their break-up …

(AP Photo/Eric Jamison)

Country star Kenny Chesney has fired back at reports his ex-wife Renee Zellweger’s divorce plans came as a complete shock to him, insisting the media slant on their break-up made it look as if it was all one-sided.

The couple split and quickly divorced just four months after a whirlwind romance led to a beach wedding in the Virgin Islands in 2005.

The actress cited “fraud” as the reason for the divorce, prompting gossips to speculate about exactly what caused the split.

But Chesney insists there’s no great mystery — he just couldn’t commit to a marriage and his music career at the same time.

He tells Playboy magazine, “I didn’t have any clue as to what true marriage meant. … It was a scary moment for me.”

But he’s keen to point out that he and Zellweger mutually agreed to split, insisting reports he was stunned when the actress filed for divorce were all wrong: “That’s false, very false. I was not taken by surprise.

“We knew it was going to happen. Somebody had to file the papers. I was fine with her doing it.”

The musician also reveals it was only weeks into the marriage that both he and Zellweger knew they had a big problem, and he started to notice “fear” in the eyes of family, friends and band members.

(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

He adds, “My band, my crew, everybody on the road, they were acting differently. I’d go to a concert and there would be helicopters circling, trying to get a picture of me and her together.

“I never really had any kind of attention from the paparazzi. It went from zero to the complete other end of the spectrum. … I thought it would be like that all the time. … I panicked. … I ran. … I pushed her away. … I just didn’t want to be married to her anymore.”

But Chesney admits he still has feelings for his ex: “I still think about her every day. … I wonder if she’s OK. … Don’t believe it (split) hasn’t left scars. I mean, you don’t just fall out of love with somebody.”

And he regrets the fact he can’t speak to her as often as he’d like to: “We talked about a year ago, on the phone, for five minutes. … It’s just too hard.”

Country star Kenny Chesney is selling a Florida home he never moved into because fans already know exactly where the retreat is. The singer/songwriter reportedly paid $5.7 million for the Key West …

Country star Kenny Chesney is selling a Florida home he never moved into because fans already know exactly where the retreat is.

The singer/songwriter reportedly paid $5.7 million for the Key West property last year, but he has decided the place isn’t for him, after one Web site printed his new address.

In a statement, Chesney says, “It’s funny how you can be moving out before you even move in.

“I may have been naive to think I could just go down to the Keys and disappear, because that was the idea. I wanted to find a place where I could just be and thought I’d found it. But, with all the buzz since we signed the papers, the last thing I want to do to some place I love as much as Key West is change the dynamics, especially for the locals who have been so good to me, so I’m stopping the insanity before it begins.

“The ‘for sale’ sign is back up, and I’m just not going to be able to take possession of the house.”